Nefarious by Richard Reeve

By Richard Reeve In Poetry

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29th September, 2012
paw-thick with mud, recovers his home under the shed, dresses in a lick, meditates the wind rising; his goal, that chamber of food: clean ughs of the fleshy zingle their female sips the juice from. Knows Family, skipped that, yowls he scorned it. Though in his claws there is a craving to feel stroked?, forget it, this is Nefarious. Back again, the usual bag torn out by an invading hunger. CC gone, covering the floor walnut shells, morsels of plastic, a top of beetroot he saw pressed to the side, guessed was something to hide a tooth in. But they ate it all, skinny indoor pussies who ...

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